QUOTES of the week

‘We have loved seeing it rise and rise like a pair of yeasted Latvian baps but we’re not going with the dough.’ Bake Off stars Mel and Sue reveal they won’t be following the BBC show to Channel 4.

‘Nothing’s going to happen until Mary Berry invokes Arctic Roll 50 – and that could take years.’ Twitter user Olly Clarke jokes that Bake Off ‘Brexit’ might take some time.

A 70-year-old with unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still d***ing bimbos at home.’ Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, pulls no punches in a leaked email voicing concerns about presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

‘Old, badly educated, don’t want anything new.’ Screenwriter Andrew Davies’s description of ITV viewers after having his scripts rejected by channel bosses.

‘Would you write to This Week and ask what Michael Portillo was wearing?’ Only Connect presenter Victoria Coren says she is fed up with viewers asking about the clothes she wears on the BBC2 quiz.

‘Don’t start pub quizzing me.’ Emily Thornberry, the Shadow Foreign Minister, rounds on Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan after he asks her to name the French foreign minister.

‘A few people in the country don’t want to see people with very few clothes on jumping off something.’ Sir David Attenborough is less than enthused by the BBC’s blanket coverage of the Olympics this summer.

‘We were force-grown, like rhubarb.’ Beatle John Lennon’s newly discovered comment on the group’s rise, as chronicled in new film Eight Days A Week, The Touring Years.

‘Go white privilege.’ Protester Natalie Fiennes, cousin of actor Ralph, suggests white defendants get treated better in courts, on being fined £95 for taking part in a Black Lives Matter demo in London.